Drupal: Storing data in the user profile

Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Sacha Chua

If you want to store data in the user profile, here's an example of a quick and dirty way to do it:

global $user;
if ($user) {
  $array = array('fieldname' => 'value_to_save');
  user_save($user, $array);
}

Then access it with $user->fieldname. For more configurability, check out the Profile module.

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Luís Gomes Subscribed to comments via email

Jun 26, 2008 at 1:00 pm

Hello,

First of all congratulations on your blog!
You make me understand you I could load or save data in the user profile!

By the way… maybe you could help me:
I've recently installed Drupal 6.x and Privatemsg module but I can't see where to send msgs to users.

Thanks!

Luís

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